The writer Graham Moore was chosen to fit the big screen the true story of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, considered one of the first serial killer in the United States, in the movie Devil in the White City, according to Deadline.com . The role of the sociopathic Chicago will return to Leonardo DiCaprio, who is attached to the feature film for over a year.
The Hollywood star, Leonardo Dicaprio will slip into the shoes of Henry Howard, a physician who would have up to 200 victims during the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Dr. HH Holmes had built especially for him in a hotel, now the site of his murder. His building housed the gas chambers, crematoria and dissection tables. After killing his victims, often young single women he attracted by using her charms, the killer selling their bodies for scientific and medical.
Fascinated by this story, Leonardo DiCaprio had acquired in the fall of 2010 the rights to the book by Erik Larson,Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America , a book that will serve as inspiration for Graham Moore.
The writer has been hired by Warner Brothers. for The Imitation Game , a film that will trace the life of mathematician Alan Turing. Leonardo DiCaprio is also involved in this project, which could be directed by Ron Howard.